“There are paths; those upon which you walk. And there are paths above those paths; the paths upon which the birds fly. And there are paths above the paths of birds; the paths upon which the clouds soar. And there are paths above the paths of clouds; the paths upon which the planets spin and […]
The soft Kindness I received from Christophe & Patrice in Labastide kept me going throughout the 6 long miles to the small town of Lascabanes, where I had thought I would be spending the night. It was, after all, getting relatively late and I was in truth already pretty exhausted. That said, the vibe in […]
The Way was long and dusty and hot and dry thereafter, repeatedly winding up, Up, and UP; a gradual yet persistent slow burn of a climb that had me wondering if I shouldn’t simply stop and sleep by the side of the road – maybe in the stacked-stone shepherd’s hut seen below. And yet that […]
I eventually made it to this interesting little Roman chapel dedicated to “St. Jean le Froid” – interesting because I had no desire to remain there for very long (even though I was exhausted at the time, and even though it was more than clean and cozy enough to consider staying therein for the night), […]
And so it was – once again – that I walked & walked & walked onward – not knowing where I would lay my head; not even knowing whether I would this day lay my head to rest at all. I had heard from other pilgrims about a monastery somewhat off the beaten path that […]
Well, the monastery was completely deserted when I finally arrived at its doorstep, and I was about to simply walk onward when a car drove up and two men hooped out – one of them, the passenger, dressed in quite pilgrimesque garb (a simple smock of sorts and sandals, with a small satchel slung over […]
Every day on this Walk I woke with a refreshed sense of resolve; a renewed heartfelt desire to walk another day for Peace. And so it was on this particular morning as well – as I woke, as I shared a nice breakfast with Baptiste, and as I set forth munching on the Zwieback bread […]
Even though I had veered off the Camino yesterday to make it my monastic stay-over, it turned out that an alternate return-route back to The Way had already been established and signposted. Baptiste told me about the same and showed me where to find its trail-head (a gift that allowed me to avoid the drudgery […]
“The road of a 1000 miles begins with a single first step, the road to freedom begins with a shout that fires the charge, and the Greatness Road begins with a question that fires the spark of Love – and ends with the resolve to see Love through no matter what thwarts or hinders.” ~ […]
It was some pretty smooth sauntering all the way to the city of Montcuq – so smooth, in fact, that I only stopped briefly in its somewhat lovely Eglise de St. Privat* before sauntering onward. And when I say “somewhat lovely,” know that I am referring to its ambience and its architecture, NOT its stained-glass […]
“If we focus too intensely on the road we are walking, we miss the wonders that reside thereupon – the scintillating beauties, the serendipitous encounters, the other sentient lives walking or simply being nearby. On the other hand, when we do the opposite – when we allow our gaze to continuously wander in search of […]
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